A CNN/ORC nationwide poll conducted from Nov. 11-13 puts Gingrich in second place with Republican respondents, behind Mitt Romney but well within the poll’s 4.5 percentage point margin of error. Romney takes 24 percent of the vote while Gingrich takes 22 percent, which marks a 14-point leap for Gingrich since last month’s poll.

Many of those new Gingrich supporters may be former Herman Cain fans, as the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO dropped 11 points in the poll, down from 25 percent in October to just 14 percent in November. Gov. Rick Perry only dropped one percentage point, to 12 percent support in this poll, but because of Gingrich’s surge he’s now in fourth place in the field.

But a full 61 percent of respondents said they still might change their minds come election day—a number that’s gone unchanged since October.

A poll of Republican primary voters nationwide conducted by Public Policy Polling around the same time finds Gingrich leading Cain by three percentage points, with 28 percent of the vote to Cain’s 25 percent. This is, again, within the four percentage point margin of error on this poll, but it’s a considerable surge for Gingrich, who polled with 15 percent support last month. Romney fell four points since last month to 18 percent support. Rick Perry finds himself in a far fourth place with only six percent of the vote–that’s an eight-point drop since October.

Here are some of the significant findings in recent presidential polling:

Voters have highly favorable opinion of Gingrich, which could make him a strong primary contender

Although Romney takes first in the CNN/ORC poll, there’s evidence from both polls that Gingrich could stride ahead of him soon. A higher percentage of respondents agree with Gingrich on the issues than with Romney (76 percent agree with Gingrich, while 70 percent agree with Romney), and Gingrich has the highest percentage of Republican respondents who think of him favorably, with 61 percent. He’s also got the lowest percentage of respondents who have an unfavorable opinion of him, with 21 percent.

On the other end of the spectrum, Perry’s got the highest percentage of Republican respondents who think of him unfavorably, at 37 percent.

The PPP poll again gives Gingrich the highest percentage of Republican respondents who think of him favorably and the lowest percentage who think of him unfavorably, 68 percent to 23 percent, respectively. Cain polls with 58 percent of respondents viewing him favorably, and 48 percent of respondents think of Romney favorably.

Cain’s hurting from allegations, but voters don’t want him out just yet

For Cain, the polls are a mixed bag. While almost a third of respondents in the CNN/ORC poll aren’t following the sexual harassment allegations against him, respondents are split as to whether the allegations are serious, with 52 percent considering them serious and 47 percent thinking they’re overblown.

In the PPP poll, 54 percent of Republicans nationwide consider the allegations to be mostly false, while only 24 percent think they’re mostly true. And 63 percent of those polled say the controversy hasn’t changed their opinion of him, compared to 26 percent who say they have a more negative opinion of Cain.

Those polled by CNN and ORC are split as to whether the Cain train should keep on chugging. While 51 percent of all respondents want Cain to continue his campaign, 46 percent say they want it to end. Drilling down to just Republican respondents, however, gives Cain’s continuing campaign the support of 60 percent of Republicans. That’s similar to the support he sees in PPP’s poll of Republicans nationwide, with 65 percent saying he should stay in the race despite the allegations.

Romney pulls ahead of Obama for the first time

The CNN/ORC poll does support proclamations of a Gingrich surge, but it also brings good news for Romney, who pulled ahead of Pres. Barack Obama in a head-to-head match up for the first time in this poll this year. He is also the only candidate to currently lead Obama, with 51 percent of the vote to Obama’s 47 percent.